Guarded by the Reaper: Monster Security Agency by Cara Wylde

Author:Cara Wylde [Wylde, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Grim

I held Millie in my arms, marveling at how perfectly she fit against me. The morning light filtered through the curtains, casting a gentle glow across the room. As I looked down at her sleeping face, it was hard to believe that someone like her – vibrant and full of life – would want someone like me – an undead man stitched together by magic and darkness.

With cautious fingers, I traced the outline of her jaw, delighting in the sensation of her skin under my touch. I could feel the way she inhaled deeply, her chest rising and falling. Her delicate features were relaxed, and for a moment, I allowed myself to wonder what it would be like if this morning could stretch on forever. My cloak wrapped around us, concealing our nakedness. The weight of the fabric was comforting, especially knowing that it protected Millie from her nightmares. The feeling of her skin against mine was intoxicating.

I’d seen countless beautiful women in my years as a Reaper, but none of them compared to Millie. Her beauty wasn’t just in her appearance. It was in her kindness, her strength, her determination to protect her sister at any cost. It was her character that made her shine brighter than anyone I’d ever met. And now here she was, in my arms, giving herself to a creature like me…

Part of me wanted to wake her up, so I could see those beautiful blue eyes of hers looking at me again with the affection she’d showed me last night. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I couldn’t be so selfish when she needed to rest so badly. I kept still, content to be her makeshift pillow.

A sharp hissing sound broke the stillness of the bedroom, snapping me out of my reverie. My body tensed. In the middle of the room, a dark, twisted silhouette began to take shape. I sat up straight, waking Millie in the process. She stirred next to me, groggy and disoriented, clutching the cloak around her, but as she followed my gaze to the intruder, she froze.

The figure solidified into a grotesque creature, malformed and unnatural, and I knew immediately it was one of Death’s messengers. I called them Death’s pets, and this one was of the more hideous variety, as if all the horrors of man and beast had been twisted together, creating something that barely fit into the mortal plane. Its head was that of a ram’s, crowned with spiraling horns, and its crimson eyes glowed with an eerie light. Where its torso should have been humanoid, pale scales glinted instead, catching the morning light in patches. Its arms were mismatched, one ending in a hawk’s talon, the other in a lion’s paw.

“Grim Reaper, you have been summoned by the Breathless,” it spoke.

Millie shrunk beside me. “The Breathless?”

“It’s another name for Death,” I said, not taking my eyes off the creature.

“Death? As in… the actual Death?”

The messenger’s focus was on Millie, its burning eyes locking onto her with what I could only describe as impatience.

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